Iraqi War costing US taxpayers $10 million per hour

The National Priorities Project, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that uses government data to illustrate the impact of federal policies on local communities, has calculated the cost of the Iraq war by congressional district, city, state and even household.

NPP bases its Iraq war calculations on a Congressional Research Service report from June, which totaled the war at $318.5 billion.

"That is $2,844 for every American household or $1,075 for every American.

The money (already spent or allocated) is being spent at a rate $10 million per hour and $244 million per day," according to NPP.

NPP breaks down the cost by state by cross-referencing the amount of federal tax revenues collected there.

• California, the most populous state, has contributed more than $40 billion of that amount, with the notoriously liberal Bay Area contributing more than $10 billion. Los Angeles has contributed a similar amount. New York contributed $28 billion.
• Texas, the home state of U.S. President George W. Bush, has been tapped for $26 billion.
• Lightly populated Wyoming, home of Vice President Dick Cheney, contributed just $546 million.

[UPI]